Hello folks,
I m currently exploring LDD with Rubini's Book.
Although its good, but i found it more like a manual lacking of good
examples ...
Can anybody plz suggest some other good references ?

04-18-2008, 05:02 PM

unix

Re: Need some good learning material on Device Drviers

root thief wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello folks,
> I m currently exploring LDD with Rubini's Book.
> Although its good, but i found it more like a manual lacking of good
> examples ...
> Can anybody plz suggest some other good references ?[/color]

Have you looked at the plethora of drivers
in the kernel sources?

--

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

04-18-2008, 06:43 PM

unix

Re: Need some good learning material on Device Drviers

On 2008-04-18, Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@INVALIDiki.fi> wrote:
[color=blue][color=green]
>> I m currently exploring LDD with Rubini's Book. Although its
>> good, but i found it more like a manual lacking of good
>> examples ... Can anybody plz suggest some other good
>> references ?[/color][/color]

If you're looking for a referene, then Robert Love's book
"Linxu Kernel Development" is good.

If you're looking for examples you'll have to be a little more
specific about what sort of examples.
[color=blue]
> Have you looked at the plethora of drivers in the kernel
> sources?[/color]

There are certainly a lot of them, but some of them I wouldn't
classify as "good examples" of anything except what happens
when too many different people work on something that's trying
to hit a constantly moving target (the Linux kernel API) with
incomplete information about how the HW really works.

--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Will this never-ending
at series of PLEASURABLE
visi.com EVENTS never cease?

04-20-2008, 11:49 PM

unix

Re: Need some good learning material on Device Drviers

On Apr 19, 1:11 am, root thief <planetha...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello folks,
> I m currently exploring LDD with Rubini's Book.
> Although its good, but i found it more like a manual lacking of good
> examples ...
> Can anybody plz suggest some other good references ?[/color]

I beg to differ in regards to your statement about LDD book "lacking
good examples" ? Its got good code snippets all over the book; and
the best thing is it explains what each snippet does.
The book tells you where to find complete examples, if you want the
complete code. If you are not aware of it, they have a Web/ftp site
where you can download all the example drivers for the LDD book.